Navigating Textiles EPR and the EU Waste Directive

The European textile industry is entering a period of major change. With the 2025 updates to the EU Waste Framework Directive, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for textiles is set to take effect. It is now a legal and financial obligation for producers that place textile products on the European market.

In this webinar, Amy Campanella, Development Director for Textiles EPR at Reconomy, explains what the legislation means in practice. She outlines when the rules take effect, what producers need to do, and how businesses can prepare early to stay compliant while identifying opportunities to reduce costs and enhance sustainability performance.

Why watch this webinar?

Learn the compliance timeline for Textiles EPR from 2025 through 2029
Understand who is defined as a producer under the EU Waste Directive
See which textile and footwear products fall in scope and which are excluded
Find out how EPR fees are set and how circular design can reduce them
Get clarity on non-compliance risks, penalties, and marketplace restrictions
Explore how compliance can create savings and strengthen brand reputation

What you will take away

A clear overview of the EU Textiles EPR requirements for producers
Insight into how collection, reuse, and recycling systems will operate
An explanation of the role of Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs)
Guidance on how SMEs and micro-enterprises can meet obligations
A step-by-step framework for building your EPR compliance roadmap

Watch the webinar to get practical guidance, understand your obligations, and prepare your business for Textiles EPR compliance.

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Les Griffith - Speakers

Business Development Director
RLGA

Les Griffith is currently the Business Development Director at RLGA and is tasked with expanding the company’s data management offerings for packaging EPR in the Americas. Les has over 30 years of industry experience in Environmental Services, Extended Producer Responsibility and Reverse Distribution. Les has spent these last 30 years working with organizations to develop progressively more sustainable solutions to the management of end-of-life materials. Prior to joining RLG, Les spent eleven years at Covanta most recently serving as the Business Development Director for the Healthcare Solutions division. His group covered North and Central America and specialized in providing a suite of services to healthcare PROs, take-back services to retail pharmacy and law enforcement and environmental services to the healthcare sector and reverse distributors. Prior to Covanta Les spent 10 years at Waste Management Inc. as an Area Manager for their Healthcare Solutions group.

Andriana Kontovrakis - Speakers

Director of Compliance Services
RLG

Andriana Kontovrakis is the Director of Compliance Services for Reverse Logistics Group’s US team.  She manages a team responsible for ensuring manufacturer and retailer customer compliance with EPR laws for electronics, batteries, packaging, household hazardous wastes, and other consumer products across the US. Along with RLG partner the Household and Commercial Products Association, she is spearheading the development of the Household Product Stewardship Alliance, a stewardship organization forming under the guidelines of Vermont’s HHW EPR law.  Prior to working with RLG, she was a Policy Analyst with the global electronics recycler Sims Lifecycle Solutions where she managed programmatic implementation and customer and supplier accounts for the US EPR compliance unit and the Deputy Director for Waste Prevention for the NYC Department of Sanitation.

Navigating Textiles EPR and the EU Waste Directive